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‘I didn't do any self-censorship' 03 April 2013
President Putin will be officially opening the Netherlands–Russia Year on 8 April in Amsterdam. Leiden Slavist Sjeng Scheijen was responsible for putt...
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Winter Queen exhibition: Pearls as symbol of power 12 March 2013
A Leiden literary scholar, paintings of the Winter King and Queen and a string of pearls brought together by an exhibition in the Hague. Dr Nadine Akk...
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New LUCAS Journal launched 11 February 2013
On Monday 11 February, the first issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference went online officially.
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Official launch of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference 11 February 2013
The official presentation of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference will take place at Leiden University’s Academiegebouw on 25 January 2013, th...
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2012 'Valorisation' by Marieke Hendriksen 25 October 2012
As a humanities researcher, it is not always easy to explain to other people why what you do is important. It is easy for people to see why searching ...
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2012 Piranesi: revolutionary printmaker, illustrious architectural historian 05 October 2012
Exposition illustrious works by Piranesi now on view in Digital Special Collections.
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Anthonya Visser: 'Freiburg is a dream research environment' 18 June 2012
Anthonya (Thony) Visser, Leiden Professor of German Language and Literature, is spending six months as a senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for A...
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Medieval waste matter found in Leiden University Library 13 March 2012
Erik Kwakkel, researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, has found an extraordinary manuscript in the University Library’s extensive collection of medie...
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2012 Six questions to Ulrike Tanzer 29 February 2012
Associate Professor Dr. Ulrike Tanzer from the German Department, University of Salzburg (Austria) is working for a few months at Leiden University. I...
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Black Theatre alive and kicking in South Africa 15 November 2011
Black Theatre, activist theatre by and for black South Africans, flourished under apartheid. However, according to Francis Rangoajane, the democratisa...
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Previously unpublished letters shed new light on Dutch Republic’s first queen 20 September 2011
‘Seated behind her desk, she initiated and influenced embassies, conventions, ambassadorial meetings, sieges, and skirmishes that had kept a war-torn ...
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Veni winner Susanna de Beer on the use of cultural heritage 22 December 2010
Society has an impact on what is viewed as heritage. Susanna de Beer investigated how heritage can be made enduring by making use of it in the present...
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What Spinoza winners Ellemers, Sluiter and Franx will do with €2.5 million 27 September 2010
On Monday 27 September 2010 Spinoza prize winners Naomi Ellemers, Ineke Sluiter, Marijn Franx (Leiden) and Piet Gros (Utrecht) announced their plans f...
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‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’ 07 June 2010
‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty,...
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‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’ 07 June 2010
‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty,...